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- Craft Demo Reel 2010 Call for submission
- Curvy 3D 2.0
- MAXON Announces Availability of Plug-in for Adobe After Effects CS5
- Frischluft now added CS5/64Bit support
- NVIDIA Demonstrates Streaming 3D Video Using Microsoft Silverlight
- Top 45 3d models Free
- Making of Be My Valentine by Omar Díaz
- The Art of Dante’s Inferno
| Craft Demo Reel 2010 Call for submission Posted: 31 May 2010 01:16 PM PDT
 After last year's success Craft Animations™ AB invites you to get exposure and worldwide recognition of your most recent, creative and finest projects completed with Craft Director Studio. It is a great way to market yourself and your company, showcasing your creations and broadening your identity. Last year's demo reel has been seen and showed around the whole world online, at exhibitions, events, sales presentations and many other instances. They seek projects from any type of area. The Craft Demo Reel 2010 will be shown at Siggraph 2010 for the first time. The Deadline for all video materials to be included in the Craft Demo Reel 2010 is 1st of July 2010. How to submit
NOTE: All provided material will be taken under consideration during the selection process. Last years demo reel:
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| Posted: 31 May 2010 10:38 AM PDT
 Aartform Curvy 3D is an easy and fast sculpting program for Windows FeatureSketch based modelling - Draw an outline to create a fully rounded 3D model immediately, then draw more outlines to refine the shape. Curvy 3D Volumetric Merge Volumetric Merge - Separate shapes can be merged together to create a continuous skin. - "Boolean And" and Subtract operators can also be applied to cut into a model. Curvy 3D Sculpting by Painting Sculpting by Painting - Warp brushes add details to the model surface creating bumps and grooves as you paint. - Includes Inflate, Deflate, Pinch, Smooth and Flatten brushes. Curvy 3D Sculpting Easy Curve and Mesh editing - Wigdet move tools let you shape curves and meshes by dragging them with your mouse while the model updates in realtime. Curvy 3D Sculpting Image Based Sculpting - New Image Inflate tool takes a silhouette or greyscale image and produces a 3D model using Heightmap, Bubble, Bevel and Extrude styles. Most of the pieces of armour in this screenshot were created from Inflated Images. Curvy 3D Sculpting Curvy 3D Sculpting Realtime Displacement Maps - Curvy Maps turn a texture map into 3D displacement of the model's surface. You can paint directly onto the Curvy map to deform the surface, or load an image from disk to distort the object. Curvy 3D Sculpting Painting in 3D - Paint on colour, specular, and bumpmaps in either the 3D views or on the 2D textures. - Use a variety of brush shapes, a dropper tool and a smooth brush to work on texture maps. - Curvy 3D objects are created with ready made UV maps so you can just select a brush and start painting. Curvy 3D Sculpting Materials and Lighting - Curvy Lightmap technology lets you apply materials and lighting together. Choose from plastic, clay or metallic Lightmaps (and many more) or paint your own. Curvy 3D Sculpting Project Dogwaffle Integration - Quickly swap textures back and forth from Project Dogwaffle to apply 2D filters and other effects. - Save the current view as a brush with an alpha channel into Project Dogwaffle. Curvy 3D Sculpting Speed Sculpting - Draw Lathes and use Quick Merge All to turn them into a smooth skin ready for sculpting. Curvy 3D is very fast at making an accurate basemesh for high resolution sculpting. Curvy 3D Sculpting Exporting - Export models to 3DS or OBJ to animate and render in other software. Export textures to edit in your own paint software. Pose Models using groups or Curvy's new automatic Skinning technology. Mirror Mesh to make any mesh symmetrical. UV Front/Back applies a quick UV map to let you paint on the front and back of a model separately. Curvy 3D is intuitive, playfully artsy, fast, and works well with Project Dogwaffle as well as other painting and animation programs with 3D layers and 3D rendering & animation tools. It lets you create colormaps, bump maps, displacement maps, highlight maps and much more. And on top of it you feel like drawing, not like modeling in 3D. This is not for technical, polygon-focused people who dream in 3D. This is a great tool for 2D minds who want to explore 3D and stick to what they know: 2D curves, profiles, contours and painting. You want this tool to use your drawn brush strokes to create 3D shapes... works well with tablets! Whether you already use other 3D modeling and animation tools like Bryce or Carrara, or whether you are starting from scratch with 3D and are coming to this new dimension with a 2D artist's mind, this is a companion 3D modeler you don't want to miss. Just draw it. Try a brush stroke or two, then re-select a curve from your drawn object, and reshape or fine tune it. Make unlimited variants from a base object - in seconds! Your boss says that teapot needs to look the other way, or the monster crab needs more teeth and claws? No problem! Curvy has a phenomenal smoothing tool to nicely blend transitions between two merged parts. Just click a key (S for Smooth) and see the magic happen in real time. You can then also further tweak the shapes, even after converting them to meshes. Poke at them, smooth them locally with the brush, or disrupt the surface for a skipey, no-touchie look. Hands-off! Then, place bones and rig your model, and pose it for the perfect snapshot to integrate into another layer with your imaging program, or save the rigged pose in 3D for further use in 3D layers and other 3D tools and games. Curvy 3D v2 also adds Image-based sculpting. You load an image with White shapes on black background - it's that easy. The program does the rest, and a few clicks later you have 3D models based on your original sketches and drawings. 3D from 2D, a dream come true, and it's ready for you to paint color, bumpmaps, displacements and highlights. Check the galleries at curvy3d.com! Be sure to come back here to order. Learn more about Curvy 3D in the Product Info section. Related links: thebest3d.com curvy3d.com  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | |
| MAXON Announces Availability of Plug-in for Adobe After Effects CS5 Posted: 31 May 2010 10:26 AM PDT
 64-bit Plugin Maintains Industry-Leading Integration with MAXON'S CINEMA 4D. MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of an updated CINEMA 4D exchange plugin for Adobe After Effects CS5. The plugin features 64-bit native compatibility for Windows and Mac OS X to allow users of CINEMA 4D to take full advantage of available hardware operating system performance for improved rendering and workflow efficiency directly inside the After Effects application. CINEMA 4D – MAXON's leading 3D motion graphics 'powerhouse' – is highly praised for its ease of use, quick workflow, fast rendering, rock-solid architecture and seamless export of composition files. Its unmatched integration to leading compositing tools like Adobe After Effects, supports not only 2D compositions, but also 3D camera, light and object data. The new After Effects CS5 plugin is available free of charge in the download section of www.maxon.net. Related links: maxon.net  | |
| Frischluft now added CS5/64Bit support Posted: 31 May 2010 10:23 AM PDT
 Frischluft has just updated all of its plugins with various bug fixes including some OpenFX ones It works with Autodesk Composite and also added CS5/64Bit support for After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop plugins. Registered users may download the latest versions HERE! Related links: maxunderground.com frischluft.com  | |
| NVIDIA Demonstrates Streaming 3D Video Using Microsoft Silverlight Posted: 31 May 2010 10:13 AM PDT
 COMPUTEX 2010—TAIPEI—May 31, 2010—NVIDIA today demonstrated 3D video streamed live over the Internet using an NVIDIA® 3D VisionTM PC, Microsoft Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming technology. The demonstration, which streamed the music video "We Are the World" 3D, at a press conference at Computex, comes at a time when consumer interest in seeing 3D movies is at its highest level ever. "We've been collaborating with Microsoft to enable 3D in an Internet browser so that it's very simple to use," said Phil Eisler, General Manager of 3D Vision technology at NVIDIA. "Just click on a 3D video and it plays in 3D, using the latest 3D Vision Silverlight-based video player and NVIDIA 3D Vision. Internet users can now enjoy 3D video content streamed in high-definition (HD) quality and viewed at full resolution. This is another great benefit of having a 3D PC." To take advantage of this technology, consumers will need an NVIDIA 3D Vision-based desktop or notebook PC equipped with the latest 3D Vision drivers and the Silverlight browser plug-in. Once these are installed, consumers can then navigate to any Web site hosting 3D Vision-based content. For content owners, this milestone provides a secure path to distribute and monetize 3D video over the Web with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming. Movies, trailers, sports and any form of 3D video can now be hosted and streamed over the Internet to a growing market of 3D PCs, most of which ship with Windows 7. "Customers have a peaked interest in 3D entertainment experiences, and Microsoft is looking forward to working with NVIDIA to bring these experiences to users through their PCs," said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft Corp. "Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming together deliver the highest quality HD video experiences over the Web and, with NVIDIA 3D Vision, will now provide consumers with a way to watch their favorite movies, sporting events, music videos and more, all in 3D from their own computer." For more information on how to use and install 3D streaming capabilities on 3D Vision PCs visit www.nvidia.com/get3D Useful Links: About NVIDIA Related links: nvidia.com microsoft.com  | |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 10:14 AM PDT | |
| Making of Be My Valentine by Omar Díaz Posted: 31 May 2010 10:02 AM PDT
 Spanish Graphic Designer and Digital Painter - Omar Díaz shows us how he has done one of his latest work named "Be my Valentine" HERE YOU GO!  | |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 09:57 AM PDT
 Dante's Inferno is a video game inspired by the epic "Divina Commedia" (Divine Comedy) poem written by Dante Allighieri in the 1300's. Italian mercenary Dante returns home from war to find that his beloved Beatrice has been murdered, and her soul pulled down into Hell by a dark force. He gives chase and subsequently fights through the nine circles of Hell to bring her back CG Channel has just showed the Dante's Inferno's art works and nice interview with Richard Larm, Lead Environment Artist and Ash Huang, Art Director for Dante's Inferno here  |
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